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The Lord Chancellor's Department was a United Kingdom government department answerable to the Lord Chancellor with jurisdiction over England and Wales.. Created in 1885 [1] as the Lord Chancellor's Office with a small staff to assist the Lord Chancellor in his day-to-day duties, the department grew in power over the course of the 20th century, and at its peak had jurisdiction over the entire ...
The Lord Chancellor's Department was, however, renamed the Department for Constitutional Affairs. In January 2004, the Department of Constitutional Affairs published a concordat, outlining the division of authority between lord chancellor and lord chief justice and which was intended as the basis of reform. [42]
The Crown Office in Chancery is a section of the Ministry of Justice (formerly the Lord Chancellor's Department).It has custody of the Great Seal of the Realm, and has certain administrative functions in connection with the courts and the judicial process, as well as functions relating to the electoral process for House of Commons elections, to the keeping of the Roll of the Peerage, and to ...
Toggle Lord chancellors and lord keepers of England, 1050–1707 subsection. 1.1 11th century. 1.2 12th century. ... Department for Constitutional Affairs' list
Its creation was announced on 12 June 2003; it took over the functions of the Lord Chancellor's Department. [1] On 28 March 2007 it was announced that the Department for Constitutional Affairs would take control of probation, prisons and prevention of re-offending from the Home Office and be renamed the Ministry of Justice. [2]
The ministry was formed in May 2007 when some functions of the Home Secretary were combined with the Department for Constitutional Affairs. [7] The latter had replaced the Lord Chancellor's Department in 2003. The expenditure, administration, and policy of the Ministry of Justice are scrutinised by the Justice Select Committee. [8]
The Lord Chancellor (formally the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain) is the most senior of the Great Officers other than the Lord High Steward (who is appointed only on a temporary basis for coronations): he is the cabinet minister responsible for the Ministry of Justice (formerly the Lord Chancellor's Department and the Department for ...
The provisions of court welfare services were the subject of two reviews. The Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) [3] and a subsequent review [4] conducted jointly by the Home Office, the Lord Chancellor’s Department and the Department of Health concluded that a new integrated service subsuming these functions could improve service to the courts, better safeguard the interests of children ...